6 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 



Certain of the foregoing animals extend their range south- 

 ward into the United States, but Canada is their natural 

 habitat and in Canada they attain their maximum devel- 

 opment, apart from the fact that in the United States 

 they have been seriously reduced in many instances. 



Our responsibilities in the matter of the conservation of 

 these animals are therefore unmistakably clear. It is our 

 bounden duty to prevent the extermination of all but the 

 noxious species on the higher grounds of our obligations to 

 the people of other countries, as guardians of our portion 

 of the wild life of the world, and to future Canadians, the 

 heirs of a region so richly endowed. 



